My only experience with IRC was at this girl's place a long time ago
where she emancipated herself from her parents. She ended up renting a huge house with no posessions... except for a bed, a dining room table, and a Technics stereo system hooked up to a PC that was downloading
things called "MP3's" from various channels she was on. Thats all she
did, day and night. MP3's on IRC.
That was pretty much my experience with IRC as well, MP3s. I'd go on to various IRC channels and interact with various bots to download songs.
Some had a ratio where I could download two songs for every one that I uploaded. I remember one frustrating time where one this one bot had the so I wanted but everything I tried uploading was a duplicate.
Maybe I'm old, but the video, images seem unnecessary, and the fact that you can look back in history, kind of seems like a bad design. It's almost like a running forum than chat sometimes. It can be used as
chat, but also as a message board, like its half way between the two.
I'm not fond of Discord at all, proprietary and it seems they can decide which communities to shut down. Not where we should be heading.
I have not used Discord much so I come at this from a degree of
ignorance. But from what I have seen I tend to agree regards your
comments of their proprietary oversight on the platform and folks being
at the whim of them as to what works, disappears, appears, and what it costs.
So many options to do video, voice and text... is this the right one to
be on? I'm picking many would say yes, but still it gives me pause :)
So many options to do video, voice and text... is this the right one to be on? I'm
picking many would say yes, but still it gives me pause :)
On 02-09-22 21:35, boraxman wrote to Avon <=-
I've heard good things about Matrix. I have not used it myself yet,
but it is a federated network. You can run your own Matrix server and keep it private, if you wish. It may not be on par with Discord when
it comes to features, but it is probably the better investment. Open
and free technologies are less likely to change on you.
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